I use ’tmux’ on anything that runs it, from FreeBSD, macOS and Linux.
On some of my Linux servers, noticeably openSUSE ones, when I connect to them via SSH, I would receive the following warning:
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warning: Could not set up terminal.
warning: TERM environment variable set to 'tmux-256color'.
warning: Check that this terminal type is supported on this system.
warning: Using fallback terminal type 'ansi'.
What worse is that, when I switch to root account, the backspace key doesn’t work correctly. For example, hitting backspace
will produce a space instead.
How can I fix this? By setting the variable TERM='xterm'.
➜ export TERM='xterm'
➜ ssh tc2
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Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
Type help for instructions on how to use fish
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Some also suggested to set the default value in the ~/.tmux.conf as the following:
set -g default-terminal "xterm"
And how did I find this out? Of course, by searching for similar problem on the internet. Full credit goes to the owner of the article below.
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